Michelle Deignan
February 20 to February 26 2024
How is the weather?
Single channel HD video, 51 secs, 2024
January 2 to January 8 2024
01/01/24, 24/01/01
Single channel HD video, 1 min 19 secs, 2024
January 24 to January 30 2023
Let us play
Single channel HD video, 1 min, 2023
November 15 to November 2022
Walk with me (for Dettie)
Single channel HD video, 8 mins 50 secs, 2022
September 27 to October 4
Closed on Monday
Single channel HD video, 45 secs, 2022
September 13 to September 20
Seaside
July 5 to July 12
Colossal Uprising
Single channel HD video, 1 min 20 secs, 2022
June 21 to June 28
Something Blue, Something White and Something Red
Digital photographs, Bourg Argental, France, 2022
May 24 to May 31
Old Power
Digital photograph, London, 2022
April 26 to May 3
It’s refocus time
Single channel HD video, 46 secs, 2022
March 8 to March 15
Partition
Single channel HD video, 1 min 13 secs, 2022
March 7 to March 8
Intravenous Antibiotics 5.45am
Meds 6.30am
Walk and toilet 6.35am
Call home 7.45am
Breakfast 8am
Toilet, Body and teeth Wash 9.15am
Walk around circular corridor 9.45am
Sleep 10am
Toilet 11am
Meds 12.30
Lunch 12.30
Visitor 1pm
Toilet 1.30pm
Walk around circular corridor 2pm
Exercises 2.30pm
Intravenous Antibiotics 3pm
Film out of window 3.15pm
Sleep 3.30pm
Meds 5.30pm
Dinner 6pm
Call home 7.30pm
Walk around circular corridor 8pm
Exercises 8.30pm
Toilet and wash teeth 9pm
Sleep 9.30pm
Wake 11.30pm
Toilet 11.45pm
Sleep 12.30am
Wake 2.30am
Toilet 2.45am
Sleep 3am
Vitals Checked at 5.30am
March 1 to March 8
Reading Material
Single channel HD video, 46 secs, 2022
February 8 to February 15
Final Test
Single channel HD video, 1′ 38″, 2022
December 14 to January 4
Together Apart
Single channel HD video, 1′ 15″, 2021
November 30 to December 7
Seeing through rainbows
Single channel HD video, 1′ 05″, 2021
November 23 to November 30
Get Comfortable
Single channel HD video, 42″, 2021
November 2 to November 9
And then it works (made possible by Manuela Morgaine’s SCRATCH THE WORLD)
Single channel HD video, 45″, 2021
September 28 to October 5
Paint the world in gold
Single channel HD video, 59″, 2021
September 21 to September 28
They say knowledge is power
Single channel HD video, 34″, 2021
August 24 to August 31
There you are
Single channel HD video, 1′ 12″, 2021
June 29 to July 6
Circular Cruise
Single channel HD video, 1′ 22″, 2021
June 15 to June 22
Near and Far
Single channel HD video, 1′ 05″, 2021
May 18 to May 25
Flying in the face of friction
Single channel HD video, 1′ 08″, 2021
April 20 to April 27
Got to stop to look down
Single channel HD video, 1′ 47″, 2021
April 13 to April 20
Tired
Single channel HD video, 2″ 29″, 2021
March 16 to March 23
Rocks
Single channel HD video, 1″ 04″, 2021
March 8 to March 16
March 8th
Single channel HD video, 2″ 16″, 2021
March 2 to March 8
Rattled
Single channel HD video, 30″, 2021
February 16 to February 23
No words
Single channel HD video, 1′ 13″, 2021
February 9 to February 16
Breakdown
Single Channel HD Video, 46 secs, 2021
February 2 to February 9
Bread Week
Single channel, HD video, 1 min, 2021
January 26 to February 2
Where do I begin?
Single channel, HD video, 2 min 15 secs 2021
January 19 to January 26
Looking south
Single channel, HD video, 1 min 2021
January 5 to January 12
Now that we have made our wishes
Single channel, HD video, 1 min 15 secs, 2021
December 15 to December 22
Wings
Single channel, HD video, 1 min 33 secs, 2020
December 1 to December 7
Birthday Tree
Single channel, HD video, 30 secs, 2020
November 24 to December 1
No Defence
Single channel, HD video, 2 mins 7 secs, 2020
November 10 to November 17
Next Move
Digital photograph, 2020
November 3 to November 10
Room 13
Single channel HD video, 1 min 25 secs, 2020
October 27 to November 3
Take That
Single channel HD video, 39 secs, 2020
October 20 to October 27
Will we ever bridge the gulf between us?
Single channel HD video, 1 min 12 secs, 2020
October 13 to October 20
The Truth
Single channel HD video, 1 min 50 secs, 2020
October 6 to October 13
We have come too far to leave it all behind
Single channel HD video, 1 min 40 secs, 2020
September 22 to September 29
One day in England
Single channel HD video, 1 min 2 secs, 2020
September 15 to September 22
Sandwich
Single Channel HD video, 1 min 4 secs, 2020
September 8 to September 15
Monocular
Single Channel HD video, 1 min 45 secs, 2020
September 1 to September 8
Everyone is home
Single Channel HD video, 1 min 2 secs, 2020
August 18 to August 31
Somewhere
Single Channel HD video, 1 min 12 secs, 2020
August 4 to August 11
Stick stick stick stick, sticky sticky stick stick
Single Channel HD video, 1 min 10 secs, 2020
July 21 to July 28
1, 2, 3, 4
Single Channel HD video, 29 secs, 2020
July 14 to July 21
Feedback
Single channel HD video, 1 min 20 secs, 2020
July 7 to July 14
Sunday
Single channel HD video, 30 secs, 2020.
June 30 to July 7
The Wait
Single channel HD video, 3 mins 25 secs, 2020.
June 23 to June 30
Just a Minute
Single channel HD video, 1 min 15 secs, 2020.
June 16 to June 23
Saturday
Single channel HD video, 49 secs, 2020.
POLYPHONIC MANIFESTO
I followed a link from my Facebook feed to an article in Frieze Magazine titled ‘Kara Walker on the Post-Lockdown World‘, 26 May 2020.
It’s a wonderfully reflective piece of writing responding to the topic ‘Exactitude’, a theme from Italo Calvino’s ‘Six Memos for the Next Millennium’ (1988).
Under her heading ‘I/me/mine’ Kara wrote:
“Witnessing trauma acts on the body in specific ways. The Event itself creates gaping holes in the fabric of the normal, and lucky survivors patch those holes with questions: ‘What do I do?’ ‘Where do I go?’ To be the witness, from afar, of death or destruction means you’re at the mercy of your senses; you have the choice of turning away from or towards the scene.”
So here we are, turning both towards and away from the scene. revolving at different times and speed, with twirls, pauses, stutters and falls. Rotating and looking, listening, tasting, reflecting, dismantling, rebuilding, acting and reacting.
Here, ‘I/me/mine’ is not twisted into ‘we/us/our’. Here, ‘I/me/mine’ is both multiplied and amplified by ‘with’.
June 2 to June 9
Capturing it
Single channel HD video, 2 mins 17 secs, 2020.
May 26 to June 2
Blowing it
Single channel HD video, 38 secs, 2020.
May 19 to May 26
Matching Pairs
Single channel HD video, 1 min 27 secs, 2020.
May 12 to May 19
There is always the Sun
Single channel HD video, 3 mins 36 secs, 2020.
May 5 to May 12
Almost
Single Channel HD video, 1 min 40 secs, 2020.
Michelle Deignan is an Irish artist and filmmaker based in London. She makes moving image, photographic and print works, for gallery exhibition, for cinema and for other screening contexts. These works critically examine the production and dissemination of culture now and historically, touching on subjects such as local and international identity, nationalism, feminism, class politics and aesthetics. Many of her works have looked at the depiction and comprehension of public space and landscape.
Michelle’s work has been screened and exhibited in international venues such as Whitechapel Art Gallery; Badischer Kunstverein, Karlsruhe; Tramway, Glasgow; Camden Arts Centre, London ; Media Art Lab, Moscow; Irish Film Institute, Dublin; Gaîté Lyrique, Paris; Crawford Gallery, Cork; Konstall Malmo; Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin and CAN, Neuchatel. Her work has been supported by Arts Council Ireland, Culture Ireland, Arts Council England and The Elephant Trust. Her moving image work is distributed by LUX.